Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] that he " in BNC.
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1 | Both of them realised that he had abandoned all pretence that Sally-Anne was an ordinary young woman come to work in Vetch Street , but neither of them pursued the matter , Dr Neil from delicacy , and Sally-Anne because she could not tell him the real truth about herself — he would undoubtedly immediately send her back to the embassy , and she did not want that at all — it would be failure . |
2 | Then everyone realised that he really needed to go and sort himself out . |
3 | It is why I asked that he might attend here . |
4 | Now er w w with every respect , to say that he survived it is something of a crass statement , because I remember reading about him thinking is n't this country getting good that we can have a black guardsman , and I remember my own disappointment when I read that he had to leave the regiment . |
5 | Later I realized that he meant , quite simply , an anti-Semite is inevitably anti-Negro . |
6 | Then I realized that he did n't want one to respond , that a response of almost any kind would have interrupted his flow , and the politest thing to do was follow the ADC 's example and just listen . |
7 | It was then that I realized that he was going to leave me on my own . |
8 | Then I realized that he was wounded , and could not run ; and that he carried a sword in his hand . |
9 | He seemed bright enough and very eager to learn , but when I went to the school to see his work I found that his handwriting was very , very bad and his spelling was absolutely atrocious , and although he was good at mathematics , as time went on he began to get very worried and very upset about it and when I looked at his work I realized that he was doing a lot of the words back to front and was getting the direction of figures mixed up . |
10 | But it put too much pressure on the relationship , and when it finished I realised that he 'd resented what I had done . |
11 | From this last question I realised that he thought Leslie had been a member of the Special Operations Executive ( S.O.E. ) , whose agents , trained in Britain and flown or dropped into France , worked in association with local groups , and sent back information to London . |
12 | Very soon I realised that he was not in tune with the rest of the Group . |
13 | colleges these days , but then I realised that he would not be interested in a girl unless she had cantilever overhangs and could be seen five miles away from the top of a bus . |
14 | We 'd just settled him along the back seat when I realised that he would need some money . |
15 | I would have done it for a young white guy if he was from my club and I realised that he did not have enough money to play the Tour . " |
16 | This surprised me , as I had not thought of him as someone who would favour me , and in any case I presumed that he would support Willie Whitelaw . |
17 | When George Wigg asked my view about this , I recommended that he should urge Harold Wilson to oppose any such investigation and I drafted a letter which Wigg suggested Wilson should write to the Prime Minister . |
18 | Well it , it I expected that he would have to go and I should have to manage on my own and it was quite er er a , a way to come down to the shop . |
19 | I shouted that he did not know what he was talking about and held the telephone away from my face . |
20 | And I found that he was universally right — by which I mean that I was answerable in my body and in my heart for what was done to my brother . |
21 | But as my historical data grew I discovered , from other sources , statements which contradicted the statements of the local historian and in most cases when I checked carefully I found that he was inaccurate . |
22 | Talking to a tobacconist I found that he has some women customers and a range of smaller pipes for them to choose from . |
23 | When we arrived at the hotel I found that he 'd booked us both into the same double room . |
24 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
25 | Suddenly I found that he and I were on a collision course , both in Atlas aircraft . |
26 | I remember one time I reported that he had developed a cough and back came a directive that we should try to make an audio recording of it . |
27 | After a closer inspection of the young man , I doubted that he could help anyone . |
28 | Bri and I assumed that he 'd had enough of his countrymen and wanted to tune out . |
29 | I believed that he might bring forward such an amendment , but he has not done so . |
30 | [ … ] And I saw a man who was holding a stick , and I believed that he was going to castigate the bad violins , for I heard many of them … |